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Northern Ireland's new First Minister Peter Robinson celebrates with his wife Iris at his desk at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Northern Ireland, Thursday, June 5, 2008. The Northern Ireland Assembly has elected Protestant politician Peter Robinson to be the new leader of a power-sharing government alongside Catholics. - The wife of Northern Ireland's leader will step down as a lawmaker within days, British media reported Saturday, Jan. 9 2010, as pressure mounted on Peter Robinson's shaky coalition government over her admissions of an affair with a far-younger man. The BBC and Britain's Press Association cited unidentified sources within the Robinson's Democratic Unionist Party as saying that his wife Iris, 60, would relinquish her dual position as parliamentarian in London and representative to Northern Ireland's regional assembly in Belfast within days. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)